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From the very outset the Princeton game was a flasco: In the first place, an 80 minute game instead of the usual 60 minute contest was played. This was quite legal, for in rugby the game may vary, with anywhere from 25 to 40 minute halves. At the end of 60 minutes of play, the score read 8-all; in the next 20 minutes the Crimson defense collapsed. The heavy Tiger scrum lorded over the Harvard forwards...

Author: By Roger H. Wilson, | Title: Ruggers Find Bermuda A Mid-Ocean Paradise | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

Suffering from an inferiority complex after last year's flasco season, primed with the alibi of no outdoor practice, the tennis team sailed into southern waters last week with all the odds against it. Team members hoped to make the four matches close; they didn't expect...

Author: By R. JOHNSON Shortlidge, | Title: Netmen Strong After Double Fault to Tarheels, Davidson | 4/7/1948 | See Source »

Unlike Hollywood's recent flasco in a production of "The Hiry Ape," an old English movie version of "The Emperor Jones" retains the essential theme of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy, and by abridging it is able to include a wider period Brutus Jones's life leading up to his fight through the jungle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 6/5/1945 | See Source »

Although the feminine eight has practiced only four times together this season, they are firmly convinced that they will not repeat last year's flasco when one of the plump oar-pushers stuck her foot through the shell. In fact, the girls aren't going to use a shell this year, but a shell-barge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'CLIFFE CREW TO FIGHT FOR FEMALE'S FREEDOM | 5/18/1945 | See Source »

Among the other events Bob Chase weighing a fly-weight 160 is given top odds over any heavy the Indians may bring down. The field events are Harvard's strongest with greatest possibility of a flasco in the middle distances

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Crimson Faces Favored Big Green Runners Tomorrow | 5/9/1941 | See Source »

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